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Series: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery Ser.

ISBN: 1612191150

EAN: 9781612191157

Category: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled/Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators/Fiction / Crime/

Publisher: Melville House Publishing

Release Date: 07/17/2012

Synopsis: Barcelonas new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out whos behind it. Pepe Carvalho is set to retire. Content to live out the rest of his days enjoying the best food and wine Catalonia has to offer, his plans are put on hold when an executive from Barcelonas world-famous soccer team pays him a visit. The center forward will be killed at dusk, reads the note the executive gives to Carvalho. With that, the detective, former communist, and one-time employee of the CIA, must find out where this note is from. Is the threat real? Is it the work of one person? Or is it one of the real estate moguls tearing Barcelona apart in their battle over the most important properties of Catalonia? Here Montalb?n does for the game of soccer what he has done for food. In an exquisite portrait of Spains most beloved sport, soccer and politics mix in a gripping mystery about the reckless excesses-and limits-of power.

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Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.72 inches

Width: 5.4 inches

Length: 8.2 inches

Weight: 9.63 oz

Pages: 288